xi, 350 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm

Troubled by faith : insanity and the supernatural in the age of the asylum / Owen Davies.

468 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm

Proper people : early asylum life in the words of those who were there / David Scrimgeour.

xxxiii, 330 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), genealogical tables, portraits ; 25 cm

Trials of the King of Hampshire : madness, secrecy and betrayal in Georgian England / Elizabeth Foyster.

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Troubled by faith : insanity and the supernatural in the age of the asylum / Owen Davies.

Proper people : early asylum life in the words of those who were there / David Scrimgeour.

Trials of the King of Hampshire : madness, secrecy and betrayal in Georgian England / Elizabeth Foyster.